I guess I want to agree with you that it's kind of a stalking horse and that there's no real segment of the left that is, in fact, class reductionist.

However, as much as I have personally spent a lot of time arguing against people who accuse the left to being class reductionist and have written extensively in defense of the left as non-class

reductionist. I do think that there is a cohort of the left. I think a minority of the left

that does kind of bristle at the centering or I would say the need to acknowledge contemporary ethnic silos as part of their coalition building efforts,

and who will say, look at the overall majority of Black voters voting for Joe Biden,

his victory in South Carolina as mediated by Jim Clyburn,

with a frustration that doesn't then yield some kind of desire to understand what's

going on there culturally. It yields a kind of defeatism almost where black voters are

sometimes written off discursively. There's no interrogation of how those outcomes could be

changed and sometimes even a dismissive

attitude toward those voters as kind of patently uninformed or stupid as opposed to having

priorities that are different and that if you want a coalition build, you're going to have

to figure out how to potentially change your reorient.

And so the fact sometimes of black voters being one of the few kind of political coalitions that exist in a real way that sees itself as a voting coalition, sees itself as a voting block, and is a more fixed voting

block than other racial groups. At a time when there is, of course, low union density and all

of the barriers to having the same kind of labor persuasion on the political process that we

used to have in some historical periods, makes me a little reluctant sometimes to say,

oh, well, let's give up on the value of that racial

coalition. When I see the 2020 process, there's a party that says, yeah, we definitely need to be

speaking about police violence and these things in terms that are more inclusive of non-black

people, particularly given some of the stats around how many Latinos

are affected by police violence. But I do maybe want to capitalize on the fact that this voting

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